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11-plus scrapped in NI

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Many children in Northern Ireland will sit the second half of their 11-plus exam - the last pupils to do so. The exam is being scrapped but nothing has been established to replace it. Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, former head of the civil service in Northern Ireland, discusses the move.

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